Identifying complications requiring re-operation following primary hip or knee arthroplasty: a consecutive series of 98 patients

Table 1 Health service where complication was initially identified

	Routine orthopaedic outpatient review		Non-routine orthopaedic outpatient review	ED^a	GP	Inpatient^b
	≤ 1 year	> 1 year	Non-routine orthopaedic outpatient review	ED^a	GP	Inpatient^b
Hip (n = 39)	6 (15.4%)	0	5 (12.8%)	14 (35.9%)	8 (20.5%)	6 (15.4%)
Metal on metal (n = 9)	0	0	8 (88.9%)	1 (11.1%)	0	0
Knee (n = 50)	9 (18.0%)	0	6 (12.0%)	15 (30.0%)	16 (32.0%)	4 (8.0%)
Total	15 (15.3%)	0	19 (19.4%)	30 (30.6%)	24 (24.5%)	10 (10.2%)

No complications were identified in ‘other community settings’
^aEmergency Department attached to study hospital, except n = 2 that were identified by other EDs and referred to the study hospital;
^bhospital or rehabilitation during the immediate post-operative period (range 2-19 days)

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